Plans have been announced to build a new 74-bed care home in Wincanton. A Yeovil woman has appeared in court charged with criminal damage and assault. The Antiques Roadshow is coming to Wells this year. Plans to build up to 30 homes in Milborne Port have been dropped. A community shop that supported local people through the pandemic is celebrating one year of opening this week.
Plans have been announced to build a new 74-bed care home in Wincanton creating 140 new jobs. Cale View, to be built on Dyke’s Way, will provide care for adults of all ages with challenging behaviours. Owners, Cornerstone Healthcare currently run care homes in Hampshire and Sussex.
A Yeovil woman has appeared in court charged with criminal damage and assault. Kamila Bobek was said to have damaged a door at Pathways and to have assaulted a woman. Bobek, who pleaded guilty to the charges, is due to return to court for sentencing on April 23rd.
The Antiques Roadshow is coming to Wells this year. The BBC show will be filmed at the Bishop’s Palace. Anyone with a story behind an antique is asked to apply online.
Plans to build up to 30 homes in Milborne Port have been dropped. Developers, Toft Hill Ltd, lost a legal battle in 2019 over plans to build 50 homes in the village. They then submitted an application to with fewer dwellings on the site but South Somerset District Council also rejected this application. Now, the Planning Inspectorate has upheld the Council’s decision.
A community shop that supported local people through the pandemic is celebrating one year of opening this week. The Stoke-sub-Hamdon Community Shop, launched in March last year, has been run as a community hub by Emma Herrod, Lynn Foley and Katherine Rake. Throughout the Covid crisis, the shop has delivered prescriptions and groceries to shielding residents, helped with dog walking, as well as advertising job vacancies for local people looking for work.
A man has been arrested in Castle Cary and charged with stalking, harassment and making threats to kill. The NHS in Somerset says its staff retention rate has improved over the past two years. A farmer in South Petherton is preparing to cycle 1,000 miles to raise money for charity...and more.
The NHS is offering spring COVID-19 vaccines to people in Somerset who are at increased risk of serious illness from the virus. A new way of making roads safer for children in Somerset has started this week. A Yeovil-based apprentice has been named as a winner in the JTL Regional Awards. Haselbury Mill near Crewkerne has been put up for sale...and more
Yeovil Town FC have sent a strongly worded letter to the Football Association asking for plans to end FA Cup replays to be dropped. A Somerset woman who's spent the last 32 years living with Hepatitis C, says better support is needed for those affected by the contaminated blood scandal. A new school of musical theatre has opened in Chard...and more.
Two teenage boys have admitted animal cruelty after filming themselves throwing a lamb down a stone staircase at Montacute. Somerset Council could lose around £5 million by selling the Marks and Spencer building in Yeovil. Chard, Wincanton, Castle Cary and Ansford are on a list of fifteen places in Somerset where new 20 mph speed limits could soon be introduced...and more.
The parents of a two-week-old baby boy, accused of his murder at Yeovil Hospital, are to stand trial. Protesters have splashed red paint across the front of County Hall in Taunton for a second time. A comedy film about the world of competitive marrow-growing and made in Shepton Mallet has opened in cinemas across the UK...and more.
Work starts today building a new eastbound carriageway as part of dualling the A303 between Sparkford and Podimore. A childhood obesity clinic in Somerset has revealed that it is treating children as young as eight months old. Somerset Wildlife Trust has launched a campaign to recruit an army of young people to act as conservation champions...and more.
A Martock man has been jailed after admitting to shining lasers at aircraft flying over Yeovil. Police are investigating an attempted break-in at the TK Maxx store at Babylon Hill. Nearly four hundred people have put their names forward for redundancy at Somerset Council...and more.
Three local primary schools have been named on a list of England's top five hundred primary schools. A new co-working space for businesswomen has opened in Wincanton. Urgent repairs are being carried out to Ilminster's new public clock after it started showing the wrong time...and more
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